Quotes from Peter McWilliams

Positive thoughts: joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness, have positive results: enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love.

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.

..we are trained as children to get good grades, get a good job, get a good spouse, get children, get ahead. In all this getting we get something else: anxiety and depression.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

When it comes time to teach, teach from your experience. Go out and do, learn from the doing, then teach from the knowing.

Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

Keep your goals away from the trolls.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

The amount of power freed by telling yourself you no longer choose to put energy into something can be remarkable. Be prepared for extra energy.

You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.

We are not responsible for every thought that goes wandering through our mind. We are, however, responsible for the ones we hold there. We're especially responsible for the one's we put there.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.